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WARNING BAD EBAY SELLER selling VINTAGE FIGURES

I thought I needed to put this in the vintage forum since it gets the traffic not the feedback forum. This was posted at another site by a really cool guy BigRed who seems to be out to warn fellow collectors. Well I'm reposting what he did so nobody on here gets ripped off.

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posted by bigred

Over the past few days, I've noticed a number of auctions from a few individuals in Virigina and the Virginia Beach area. This seller, joxlom just listed this Tri Logo Boba Fett-

He also had numerous Tri Logo Boba Fetts, one auction he ended early along with a number of other auctions that stole pictures from 12Back.com. The photographs have no consistency to them and appear to have been stolen from other sources.

A number of months ago, a number of sellers in the same area were building up their feedback by selling and buying DVDs and other videos (just as these two sellers are...even the same bootleg Fantastic Four video that I remember) before pulling frauds for large numbers of carded figures. I was almost taken for a large lot of POTF coins too, but realized the deal was just too good to be true. I got to the point of addressing the envelope and writing the check but then realized it would be a bad move.

Even worse, another seller, motiondevotion is in the same general area:

Their descriptions are almost identical to the type by the other sellers mentioned above, and their feedback was from a DVD.

I would be very cautious dealing with these individuals. They have stolen pictures to sell their current items, but it appears they are getting some knowledge on how to pull a scam because they ended the auctions with the 12Back.com note in the bottom corners of the picture.

no! $hit i just bought a luke skywalker twelve back for 290$ what should i do i already sent the money through paypal please any1 omg i hope i didntget wriped if i did i will hunt that guy down with my bare hands

OUCH! well see if they bother to send it. I think you just got screwed. And He or whatever claims to be a single women. Cause when I asked her if a buddy of mine could pick something up in person she said it was fine. So i don't know i'm still 70-30 about her being honest.

Uh...I would ask JarJarBinks he seems to be smart about what to do. PM him maybe he'll help you maybe not. hmmm....I emailed all the bidders on that auction except for the last two days as i got busy. Lots of people retracted bids... Plus I posted this warning and other things all in here and the saga forum..people just overlooked it completely sigh.....well i've been ripped off three times in a row. I'm really losing faith in people..

how can u b sure though all the people that bought those dvd's had good feedback and i was checking the bids on the luke b4 me and notice that no1 from the dvd buys were bidding so atleast he or she wasnt having friends up the price but i did bid at the last second so hmmm..... im having regrets 285$ for a 12 back luke does seam to good to b true i was telling this to my brother and he said they'ed have a HUGE lawsuit on there hands
thanks billy if only i read this sooner

well now all her auctions are done so i doubt she'll return emails, i bet the only reason she did the 1st time was cuss her auctions wernt done but u never know she migt at work i sent the email pretty late night asking for a UPS number, so i could trace the shipment ill keep u updated tonight if i hear any word from her but if she yacks my money my dad said there will b hell to pay